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Book Review: Resurrection, by Leo Tolstoy
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Book Review: Resurrection, by Leo Tolstoy

Posted on September 19, 2023April 18, 2025 by Brad Shorr

Resurrection, published in 1899, was Tolstoy’s last novel and the cause of his being excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox Church. It’s powerful and depressing and thought-provoking in the extreme. Resurrection fully embodies Tolstoy’s method of writing  after his religious awakening;…

Book Review: The Crisis of Western Education, by Christopher Dawson
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Book Review: The Crisis of Western Education, by Christopher Dawson

Posted on September 4, 2023December 24, 2023 by Brad Shorr

One cannot read Christopher Dawson’s The Crisis of Western Education without feeling a tremendous sense of loss – the loss of purpose, the loss of a full life, the loss of the future. I’ll quote Dawson at length here, because…

Book Review: The Hound of Distributism
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Book Review: The Hound of Distributism

Posted on August 19, 2023August 20, 2023 by Brad Shorr

The Hound of Distributism, A Solution for Our Social and Economic Crisis, Edited by Richard Aleman. I picked up this gem at the 2023 Chesterton Conference in Minneapolis. If you want to quickly and (relatively) easily get the gist of…

Book Review: The Judgment of the Nations, by Christopher Dawson
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Book Review: The Judgment of the Nations, by Christopher Dawson

Posted on August 11, 2023April 2, 2024 by Brad Shorr

“For the new paganism has nothing in common with the poetical idealization of Hellenic myth by the humanists and classicists of recent centuries: it is the unloosing of the powers of the abyss — the dark forces that have been…

Book Review: With God in America
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Book Review: With God in America

Posted on June 19, 2023 by Brad Shorr

With God in America, The Spiritual Legacy of an Unlikely Jesuit, Walter J. Ciszek, S.J., Compiled and edited by John M. DeJak and Marc Lindeijer, S.J. When Fr. Walter Ciszek came back to the United States after 23 years captivity…

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